Andrew Kitchen
Over the last 10 Championship games Andrew Kitchen has officiated, the average is 3.00 cards a match — 25% below the league average of 4.01. That splits 2.9 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.7 to 1.3 a game, in line with the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 10% of those games (1 of 10), from a 14.0% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 79 matches, 0.16 a game against a league average of 0.17. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Andrew Kitchen turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Championship season on record.
| Measure | Kitchen | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.21 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.80× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 14.1% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 22.9 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 79 | — |
| Red cards shown | 7 | — |
| Matches on record | 80 (5 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Andrew Kitchen took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlton Athletic v Portsmouth12 Sep | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Lincoln City v Southampton5 Sep | 1–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Stoke City v Norwich1 Sep | 1–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| West Ham v Charlton Athletic22 Aug | 1–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | 25 |
| Cardiff City v Wrexham17 Aug | 1–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Sheffield United v Preston North End25 Apr | 2–3 | 3 1 pen | 3 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| Coventry City v Portsmouth21 Apr | 5–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Southampton v Derby County11 Apr | 2–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Andrew Kitchen give per game?
Andrew Kitchen averages 3.21 cards a game across 80 Championship matches — 20% below the league average of 4.01. On an Andrew Kitchen appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.80.
Is Andrew Kitchen a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Andrew Kitchen runs at 14.1% against a league average of 18.3%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Andrew Kitchen's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Andrew Kitchen's card rate?
It rests on 80 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.